A group of the bourgeois head for a prominent figure’s birthday party. As they venture through the woods and have a picnic, they’re suddenly surrounded by some suspicious strangers.

A quintet of vignettes based on short stories by Bohumil Hrabal: an eventful trip to the motorcycle races results in drunkenness, long-winded discussions, and death; two elderly men create false…

Two Jewish boys escape from a train transporting them from one concentration camp to another. Beyond themes of war and anti-Nazism, the film concerns itself with man’s struggle to preserve…